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The Doom Generation (1995)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:14

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5/10

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Three aimless teenagers -- pampered, amoral Amy Blue, her naive boyfriend Jordan White, and hot-headed, mysterious hunk Xavier Red -- embark on a road trip after Xavier kills a store clerk. During... Three aimless teenagers -- pampered, amoral Amy Blue, her naive boyfriend Jordan White, and hot-headed, mysterious hunk Xavier Red -- embark on a road trip after Xavier kills a store clerk. During their trek, the teens engage in outrageous, remorseless violent acts, and explore their sexuality. But as their journey progresses, it grows darker and increasingly nihilistic... finally climaxing in a moment of shock and horror. [More]

Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Rose McGowan, James Duval, Margaret Cho

Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Rose McGowan, James Duval, Margaret Cho, Christopher Knight, Lauren Tewes, Heidi Fleiss, Amanda Bearse, Parker Posey

Director: Gregg Araki

Director: Gregg Araki

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Amy's a screaming, speed-addled banshee, and not the sort of chick you'd want to run into late at night (or spend 85 minutes with in a darkened theater).

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

An arty atrocity for thugs and sub-literates that makes Natural Born Killers look like The Sound of Music.

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01/01/00
Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post

In terms of filmmaking, point of view and oddball sense of humor, Araki's film is better than both [Kids and Natural Born Killers].

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

More like Natural Born Killers than any other film that comes to mind, but it's ultimately sexier, funnier, and much more 'alternative' (in every sense of the word).

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Kathy Fennessy
Kathy Fennessy
Film.com

It's young, it's hip, it's excruciating for anyone who has already survived adolescence.

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01/01/00
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

Admittedly, Araki's new feature may not appeal to all tastes, but that does not at all diminish its immediacy and wit.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

A senseless comic exercise in pushing the limits of decency for that sake alone.

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Michael Haile
Michael Haile
Boxoffice Magazine

Not every kid may be as mad and morose as Araki's lost boys... But a lot are, and in this fevered fantasy of Armageddon, he's got their number.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
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Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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This is the kind of movie where the filmmaker hopes to shock you with sickening carnage and violent amorality, while at the same time holding himself carefully aloof from it with his style.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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I'd step on a thumbtack before watching it again.

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Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

A note to Gregg: grow up. Really. Move out of your parent's basement, read something other than Salinger, and get a day job.

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Ted Prigge
Ted Prigge
rec.arts.movies.reviews

You sense that there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger about and fear of 90s purposelessness and predatory intolerance.

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Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh
Film.com
 
 
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